“Lets give everyone medicare and break up Google and subsidize manufacturing” is hardly a planned economy. The most extreme dont wanna go anywhere past the Nordics, and we’re the richest country in the world- we could easily afford it. The only place youll meet legit planned-economy advocates, because not even all Socialists fit that descriptor, is lemmy.ml and similar forums
If you read their other posts, they’re against huge corporations and for a planned economy, so they agree with leftists and just don’t know it.
“Lets give everyone medicare and break up Google and subsidize manufacturing” is hardly a planned economy. The most extreme dont wanna go anywhere past the Nordics, and we’re the richest country in the world- we could easily afford it. The only place youll meet legit planned-economy advocates, because not even all Socialists fit that descriptor, is lemmy.ml and similar forums
Sure but it’s still generally a leftist position, even if it’s not a common or popular one.